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2016-03-01 Iraq
US warns citizens to evacuate Iraq if Mosul dam bursts
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Posted by phil_b 2016-03-01 05:22|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 Well since the battle for Mosul has supposedly started, if one of the players gets a bit frisky, lots of contingencies need to be considered.
Posted by 3dc 2016-03-01 06:56||   2016-03-01 06:56|| Front Page Top

#2 We can only hope.
I've got a floaty here somewhere.
Posted by Skidmark 2016-03-01 08:12||   2016-03-01 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Saddam's 'marsh Arabs' understand hydrology. Oh wait, they're all dead.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-03-01 08:15||   2016-03-01 08:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Built on a foundation of gypsum (soluble in water) during the early Saddam Hussain era.

Grout is pumped into the dam almost every day. It still leaks.
Posted by lord garth 2016-03-01 08:16||   2016-03-01 08:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Plans to bring the surviving wet refugees to the US are in contingency discussions.
Posted by Mugsy Glink 2016-03-01 09:41||   2016-03-01 09:41|| Front Page Top

#6 A little history of the dam here.

German-Italian Firm. Sounds like the folks constructing it didn't follow engineering recommendations with regards to the dam's foundation.

Also sounds like Chicago/Detroit/New Orleans-style construction techniques.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-03-01 09:50||   2016-03-01 09:50|| Front Page Top

#7 "Who cares about the foundation. The rest of it will be spiffy"
Posted by Frank G 2016-03-01 13:49||   2016-03-01 13:49|| Front Page Top

#8 We wanna keep that dam intact then, at all costs, because if those people have to evacuate they'll be pitching tents on my front lawn.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-01 16:24||   2016-03-01 16:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Then they'll bitch at me when the sprinklers come on.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-01 16:25||   2016-03-01 16:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Ebbang Uluque6305 - Your front lawn is in Basra?
(The end of the flush)
Posted by 3dc 2016-03-01 16:42||   2016-03-01 16:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Someone needs to start building a big boat. Preferably out of gopher wood.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-03-01 18:13||   2016-03-01 18:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Problem is, they haven't been pumping the grout regularly lately.
Posted by KBK 2016-03-01 23:17||   2016-03-01 23:17|| Front Page Top

#13 "It still leaks" > As per #4, CHINA is repor discovering that problem in various places widin its MASSIVE-n-EXTENSIVE THREE GORGES DAM SYSTEM.

Main + Support Dams.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-03-01 23:18||   2016-03-01 23:18|| Front Page Top

#14 But... but... but... Me and my family had our Spring Vacation plans all made and everything!
Posted by CrazyFool 2016-03-01 23:43||   2016-03-01 23:43|| Front Page Top

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